Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a BPhil. from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
A Times Best Book of 2021
'Punchy, analytical and written with the zest and elegance of a journalist at the top of her game' - Sunday Times
'Courageous. Vital. Brilliant. Humane' - Mail on Sunday
'Every parent needs to read this gripping travelogue through Gender Land, a perilous place where large numbers of teenage girls come to grief despite their loving parents' efforts to rescue them' - Helen Joyce, senior staff writer at The Economist
'In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier provides a thought-provoking examination of a new clinical phenomenon mainly affecting adolescent females that has, at lightning speed, swept across North America and parts of Western Europe and Scandinavia. It is a book that will be of great interest to parents, the general public and mental health clinicians' - Dr Kenneth J. Zucker, adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
'A work brimming with compassion for a vulnerable subset of our population: teenage girls. It is a work that makes you want to keep reading because it is accessible, lucid and compelling. A must-read for all those who care about the lot of our girls and women' - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
'A folksy, anecdotal tour of a well-evidenced phenomenon' - Private Eye
'A detailed look at the context and consequences of this rise in transgender identity' - Irish Independent
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